Army commissar 1st rank (), was a political rank in the
Soviet Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of Peop ...
, equivalent to the military rank of
Komandarm 1st rank, and comparable to NATO
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Appointment
1935
Appointment to Army Comissar 1st rank as to the disposal of the
Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
The Central Executive Committee of the USSR (), which may be abbreviated as the CEC (), was the supreme governing body of the USSR in between sessions of the All-Union Congress of Soviets from 1922 to 1938. The Central Executive Committee elec ...
and the
Council of People's Commissars
The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (), were the highest executive (government), executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Soviet Union (USSR), and the Sovi ...
(CPC) from November 20, 1935:
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Yan Gamarnik (1894–1937), committed suicide to avoid arrest
1937
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Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939), as to CPC disposal December 20, 1937; arrested June 1938 and later executed
1939
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Lev Mekhlis (1889–1953), as to CPC disposal February 8, 1939
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Efim Shchadenko (1885–1951)
1941
Alexander Zaporozhets
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zaporozhets ( rus, Александр Владимирович Запорожец, p=zəpɐˈroʐɨt͡s; , Kyiv, Russian Empire — October 7, 1981, Moscow. Soviet Union) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and a studen ...
(1899–1959)
Military ranks of the Soviet Union
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